vfio VS zephyr

Compare vfio vs zephyr and see what are their differences.

vfio

A script for easy pci and usb passthrough along with disks, iso's and other useful flags for quick tinkering with less of a headache. I use it for VM gaming and other PCI/LiveCD/PXE/VM/RawImage testing given the script's accessibility. (by ipaqmaster)

zephyr

Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures. (by zephyrproject-rtos)
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vfio zephyr
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173 9,582
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7.0 10.0
about 1 month ago 5 days ago
Shell C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only Apache License 2.0
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vfio

Posts with mentions or reviews of vfio. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-02.
  • How hard is it to set up a Single GPU Passthrough Win10 VM
    3 projects | /r/VFIO | 2 Apr 2023
    If you love wasting time you could give my script a shot as well from a terminal with your gpu as the -pci argument, but you'll also want to give it your USB controllers too.
  • AMD 7950X3D a VFIO Dream CPU?
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 8 Jan 2023
    In my script I have -name main,debug-threads=on in my qemu command which helps me find which child thread is the iothread. I do my pinning using the same debug thread name discovery method.
  • tired of virt-manager
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 22 Dec 2022
    Yeah my script is public and can be found here. I've thought about making an actual link post here a few times in the past but I guess the time to do so never really came up.
  • I Gave up VFIO due to I/O problems causing stutter in any VM - Unsuccessful/Unpopular Story
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 2 Dec 2022
    These boot arguments allow me to give my VM cores 3,11 to my guest while my host continues to operate (and handle any IOThreads I may have running for the guest) on the remaining cores 0(thread0,12), core1(thread1,13) and core3 (thread2,14). Personally, I handle my pinning dynamically with a bash script I wrote and still today find myself adding features and making improvements to. It can be found here if you want to give it a shot for your use case.
  • Easiest GPU Passthrough [GPU Passthrough Manager]
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 15 Nov 2022
    How does this compare to /u/ipaqmaster's script which accepts one-liners for single or dual and you're set?
  • Archcraft single gpu passthrough
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 5 Sep 2022
    You'll get further posting here by detailing what exactly is going wrong when you try and any configuration and scripts you tried to do it with. There are also scripts which try to be the everyman and do it all for you such as this vfio bash script written by one of the members here.
  • QEMU/KVM with VFIO passthrough kinda slow
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 10 Jun 2022
    You may wish to try my vfio script which handles all of that automatically. Could be worth a try.
  • Single GPU issues (Arch Linux)
    2 projects | /r/VFIO | 18 May 2022
    I've missed no opportunity to plug it lately, but the slew of people using hardcoded scripts copy-pasted from some guide or youtube video has never felt right to me. I made my own dynamic script which handles most vfio problems on the fly rather than hardcoding start.sh/stop.sh scripts per configuration. It could be worth checking out given I made it for Archlinux (my desktop) and you seem to be running that too.
  • All of a sudden Win10 guest is unplayably laggy
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 18 Apr 2022
    I use this script to help start the qemu VM (there were no recent changes to the script) (I can paste the full qemu_system_x86_64 command if that would help) https://github.com/ipaqmaster/vfio
  • Fan Speed at 100% when VM offline
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 15 Mar 2022
    Well, if you'd be willing to give it a test drive just for fun I made and use this for my daily VFIO ease of access if you'd want to give it a try.

zephyr

Posts with mentions or reviews of zephyr. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-05.
  • Ask HN: Anyone Waiting on BT Auracast?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2023
    Hey folks. Anyone out there waiting for BT Auracast? It was announced June 2022, and immediately struck me as must have.

    I lost my earbuds, but it seems ridiculous to get a replacement without Auracast, seems like surely if I'm going to make a decent sized purchase like that it needs to support group playing. I want to tune into the radios of other people on the metro or on the bus, want to be able to watch a movie on the plane with someone.

    Auracast was announced in June 2022. Anyone else out there struggling with expectations here? I'm really hoping the product announcement season that's right around the corner had a good number of Auracast announcements.

    Side note, a ton of it is over my head but it's been so so fun tuning in every once and again to see how Zephyr's Bluetooth Audio work is going. Just wild now much has gone into this! https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/commits/main/subsys/bluetooth/audio

  • VisionFive 2 ROM addresses for Zephyr RTOS
    3 projects | /r/RISCV | 5 Dec 2023
    I am working on adding support for VisionFive 2 in Zephyr RTOS. I have created a device tree by referencing the starfive linux, patches of hifive_unmatched FU740 SoC and patches of BeagleV Starlight.
  • Adding support for visionfive2 in zephyr rtos
    2 projects | /r/embedded | 24 Nov 2023
    We are unsure on how to proceed further with this error. We have opened a github discussion regarding the same issue.
  • Zephyr (small footprint realtime OS) supported boards
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Aug 2023
  • Learning to write device drivers using C/C++ in Zephyr OS
    2 projects | /r/embedded | 11 Jul 2023
    Then there are samples. Look through it for anything useful. RC522 uses SPI, so getting that to work would be a good first step.
  • Building with cmake can't find cross-compile objcopy
    1 project | /r/Zephyr_RTOS | 25 Jun 2023
    Hey, I've been trying to build an app with cmake+ninja instead of west to integrate it into a larger build system and everything works correctly except for the final stage where it uses `/usr/bin/llvm-objcopy` instead of the `${CROSS_COMPILE}` one it tries to find here.
  • Arduino Joins Zephyr Project
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2023
    Zephyr has a lot of good points, but I really wish it didn't use Kconfig. Getting a working config seems to be mostly a matter of copying an already working example. It might be okay for hardware side of things, but it's a really bad at software/feature dependency.

    Set https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/build/kconfig/tips.htm... and the issue: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/issues/52575. And don't even get me started on trying anything to group options together.

  • Zephyr 3.4 is out!
    1 project | /r/Zephyr_RTOS | 18 Jun 2023
  • PlatformIO and Zephyr is a bad idea
    4 projects | /r/embedded | 17 May 2023
    In this thread u/ikravets explained that there hasn't been much demand for Zephyr, which is why they aren't doing anything with it, and in this pull request Zephyr decided to no longer recommend PlatformIO in their documentation.
  • Zephyr RTOS RAM Tracing
    1 project | /r/embedded | 4 May 2023
    The answer is always in the source: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/blob/bdaac354f4cb0ad91d952c2f6941c16240d84da2/subsys/tracing/tracing_backend_ram.c

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vfio and zephyr you can also consider the following projects:

Complete-Single-GPU-Passthrough - Single GPU VFIO Passthrough Guide

FreeRTOS-Kernel - FreeRTOS kernel files only, submoduled into https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS and various other repos.

seabios - Mirror of git.qemu.org/seabios.git

mbed-os - Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things

vfio-pci-bind - Automatically bind a PCI device and all of it's IOMMU group members to vfio-pci

RIOT - RIOT - The friendly OS for IoT

gpu-passthrough-tutorial

nuttx - Apache NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS)

WOA-Drivers - Windows Drivers for Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms

wasm-micro-runtime - WebAssembly Micro Runtime (WAMR)

LEDs-single-gpu-passthrough - Single GPU passthrough guide 单显卡直通教程资源

mongoose-os - Mongoose OS - an IoT Firmware Development Framework. Supported microcontrollers: ESP32, ESP8266, CC3220, CC3200, STM32F4, STM32L4, STM32F7. Amazon AWS IoT, Microsoft Azure, Google IoT Core integrated. Code in C or JavaScript.